The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-03-12

failed to get the name of her boy anu
a colored boy OH her place. | called
for the roll aud pointed out their
names. If other names were neglected
they did not report to the Office. Short
" after the above occurrence Mr.
Jones got the Board of Directors to-
gethcr and doubtless told his gricvan-
ccs concerning the census, upon which
they decided TO put man to work in
each ward at So per day and retake
the census, and Mr.. Jones decided to
take his own (thc third ward. Aud
now comes the pressure, yea, the
squeezing process. lie took the third
ward and doubtless had many mar
row escape from the bulldog that lay
on the porch, and reports his roll
about twenty ahead of mine, when it
should have been about one hundred.
Why Mr.. Jones made such an error in
the overplus can't say, but perhaps
TO make me feel easy. Mr.. Jones called
ut my office and askei i'll would check
off names with him. ! asked him TO
leave his rolls and | would draw of
all the names he had which did not
tappear on my rolls. ] did so, and
found that | had 62 names which he
did not have. and he had 1876
names which | did not have, and
strange TO say, about 100 OF
his extra names were 8 TO l6
years of age, and n large number of
them were the children of p, rents
whom had visited. discovered that
at numerous places where ! had taken
the census, he received additional
names, and they were almost invaria
bly, eight and sixteen years OF age.
And Il large number of the extra
names were Names that never heard
of in Dallas. aud some never heard,
of anywhere, not even among the
most outlandish names, and ! could
not get information of their where
abouts after much inquiry, but lie may
have struck q nest about Il c branch
that my eyesight was too dim TO dis
cover, and if any one will trouble them
selves little to call at my office | will
take pleasure in exhibiting to them
some of these names, and perhaps, they
can throw some light on them.
After rejecting on this great list OF
ex ira names, (Which must have sur
priscd Mr.. Jones, il what he said at
the assessors Office was in earnestly |
proceeded at once TO learn the census
and therefore put myself to some trou
bic to see some OF the parents OF these
additional names. only called to see
lev of them, but can show up large
number to any one interested, whose
names should not appear upon the
list. And now for the squeezing
process. from the cradle To the grave.
Mr.. Jones, you said to me that you
could swear 10 your roll. Now re
member that the law says from to
l6, and the census taker must swear
that he has taken a true ana correct
census, according as the law directs.
What can you say for yourself in the
following cases, to-wit.: You put the
name of Sidney Stemmons ut 8, when
Col. Stemmons informs me that he is
between and Z. You put the age
of Willie Gibbs at 8, when Gov. Gibbs
says he is 6. You put the name of f
NJ. Fearn at s, when Major Fearn in
forms me that she will be on the
s0th of next September, and that YOU
were not authorized TO put il at s.
You put the name Of KATE Schneider
at 8, when Jules Schneider, Esq, says
she was Z last December. You put the
name of Miss Alice Bry an at Is, when
Mrs. Bryan informed me she was over
the school are. You put the name
Walter Caruth at &c, when his sister
said he was not Of the school age. DR.
Gibbs says his son John is II, and you
put it 16. These are only few in
stances where you violated the law.
Other points l will reserve for the
future and expose them when think
necessary. Squeeze out your oath.